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**BobMane** · 07-05-2011, 09:01 AM

i asked my host tech support to redirect about 50 old urls

like

domain.com/old-page1.html to domain.com permanent

domain.com/old-page2.html to domain.com/new-page.html permanent

etc...

they first put in a broad redirect so that anything

domain.com/sdfb,asfb
domain.com/waiuerylrhaw.khakha.kgn

would redirect to

domain.com/

[i think, but not sure] the broad redirect interfered with some of my code and caused some errors, so I asked them to use a different approach redirecting only my specified urls.

they told me to manually do it my self in cPAnel

so I did, one at a time entered all the redirect

now in my htaccess file all the rules are there

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^doamain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.doamain.com$
RewriteRule ^articles\/popup\/Gut5\.html$ "http\:\/\/domain\.com\/" [R=301,L]

but alot of them do not work

my host said it is because I have too many rules

any solutions of how to do this right?

**chrishirst** · 07-05-2011, 11:35 AM

Hmm, 50 individual lines in .htaccess is a bit much.

Bit more information needed.

Are there any patterns that can be matched between old url and new url?

Are these simply pages that have been removed from the site?

**BobMane** · 07-05-2011, 12:01 PM

oops

actually it is about 100 redirects...not 50

Are there any patterns that can be matched between old url and new url?

you mean so that I could reduce the number of redirects? not exactly

but here are a few:

domain.com/harder/HARDER_Productions.html
domain.com/harder/COVERPOP.html

new equivalent would be:

domain.com/harder.html

--

domain.com/mix-it-universal/index.html
domain.com/mix-it-universal/tell-us-what-u-want-milar.html

new equivalent would be:

domain.com/mix-it-universal.html

domain.com/articles/acoustics.html
domain.com/articles/guitar.html

new equivalent would be:

no equivalent (except maybe domain.com/blog)

Are these simply pages that have been removed from the site?

no this is a entirely new site. it is a re-launch going from a mostly static 10 years old website to a magneto store.

the old urls have a lot of incoming links form being on the web for 10 years so I have to redirect them to the magneto site.

**chrishirst** · 07-05-2011, 12:59 PM

I would suggest the best way of handling this is with a custom 404 script. Magneto is already something of a resource hog and 100+ lines of .htaccess being parsed on every request isn't going to make it less so.

**BobMane** · 07-06-2011, 12:10 AM

any tips on how i would do that?

**chrishirst** · 09:38 AM

Make an array of the old urls and new urls, sompare the error page then redirect.

this is coded in ASP but will convert to PHP fairly simply.

Might even do it myself today if time permits.

**BobMane** · 07-06-2011, 09:20 AM

that would be great, I am kind of stuck on this

**chrishirst** · 07-07-2011, 08:55 AM

Ok got distracted yesterday with a visit from the two week old newest family member

taken a bit longer than anticipated (PHP skills have a little more rust than I thought)

But with a bit of RTFM we'll get there.

**BobMane** · 07-07-2011, 11:20 AM

I have attached the entire htaccess file for this Magento website

**chrishirst** · 07-08-2011, 09:11 AM

Eventually! I'd get a lot more done if it wasn't for the clients

PHP Code:


			
<?php



// list of URIs to be handled and redirected.

//$pageArray['old uri'] => 'new uri'



$req=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];

$pageArray = array('/old.php' => '/new.php');



if (array_key_exists($req, $pageArray)){

    header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently');

    header('Location: '.$pageArray[$req]);

} else {





?>



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<title>Not Found</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

</head>

This is the 404 page

<br>



<?php echo($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?>





<body>

</body>

</html>



<?php }; ?>

The URIs go in an associative array and you simply check if the old URI exists as a key, it then redirects to the associated value, if not it drops through to the else and displays an error page and throws a 404 response.

**chrishirst** · 07-08-2011, 09:13 AM

save as 404.php and set a .htaccess directive for

ErrorDocument 404 /404.php

**BobMane** · 07-08-2011, 10:59 AM

i appreciate the help but the solution instructions are way above my head.

**chrishirst** · 07-08-2011, 11:38 AM

Ok

The only line you need to change is this one;

PHP Code:


			
$pageArray = array('/old.php' => '/new.php');

and you need to add more of them, one for each URI to redirect, like so:

The old URL is first

PHP Code:


			
$pageArray = array('/asdf.php' => '/zxcv.php');

$pageArray = array('/folder/1234.php' => '/newfolder/1890.php');

$pageArray = array('/old3.php' => '/new3.php');

$pageArray = array('/older.php' => '/newer.php');

If they are in folders, that must be added too as in the second example.

the URLs is going to be the address without the protocol (http://) and without the hostname (www.domain.tld).

And the .htaccess line of code is exactly as it is in the post. Leave everything else alone because that's written by Magneto.

In the 404.php page remove the code between the </head> and <body> (that's just my testing code)
Then in the body section you can put a link to your site map, a search box or whatever suits.

Does that help any?

**BobMane** · 07-08-2011, 12:05 PM

are you saying put a file I create from scratch at root

/

404.php

??

is this normal in a magento system?

**chrishirst** · 07-08-2011, 12:54 PM

Yep but you can call the file anything you want, just as long you use the same file name in htaccess for the error doc. I just call them 404.ext for file management purposes.

It's nothing at all to do with Magneto or any other CMS/Cart/Blog/Forum etc it's there to catch missing page requests, and you simply turn it's normal function to your advantage.

I have an entire site that relies ENTIRELY on a custom 404 page to serve the appropriate page.

Provided you return the correct response code to user agents you can do anything you like with them.

**BobMane** · 07-08-2011, 01:03 PM

OK I will look into this and try it out + post back..Thanks!

**BobMane** · 07-09-2011, 10:22 AM

still don't get it:

this

PHP Code:


			
 <?php 

// list of URIs to be handled and redirected. 
//$pageArray['old uri'] => 'new uri' 

$req=$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; 
$pageArray = array('/old.php' => '/new.php'); 

if (array_key_exists($req, $pageArray)){ 
    header('HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently'); 
    header('Location: '.$pageArray[$req]); 
} else { 


?> 
 
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> 
<html> 
<head> 
<title>Not Found</title> 
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> 
</head> 
This is the 404 page 
<br> 

<?php echo($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); ?> 
 

<body> 
</body> 
</html> 

<?php }; ?>

goes where / into what document?

so there are 3 docs in play?

1. this php in some doc
2. a fake 404 page?
3. htaccess modification?

**chrishirst** · 07-09-2011, 12:23 PM

only ONE page (.htaccess) will need changing, the other is a new document.

The php code above, goes into a new document which is going to become the "Not Found" or 404 Error document for the entire website, not simply for Magneto, which is why I named it 404.php simply so you know what it does.

Then you add your list of redirects into the array.

**chrishirst** · 07-09-2011, 12:25 PM

BTW. It is not a FAKE 404 page, it really IS your 404 page, just getting a bit more use that's all.

**BobMane** · 07-09-2011, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

BTW. It is not a FAKE 404 page, it really IS your 404 page, just getting a bit more use that's all.

OK i get it. do you happen to have seen this work using a magneto site? (as you know magneo is a bit different)

also, it has its own /errors directory with htaccess, local.xml and phtml pages.